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    The narrator describes being forced to move with their family into a cramped room in a walled-off part of Cracow. One day, soldiers arrived with trucks and forced everyone to leave their homes, loading them onto a train. The train journey was horrific, with too many passengers and no air to breathe in the crowded, smelly carriages.

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    The narrator describes being forced to move with their family into a cramped room in a walled-off part of Cracow. One day, soldiers arrived with trucks and forced everyone to leave their homes, loading them onto a train. The train journey was horrific, with too many passengers and no air to breathe in the crowded, smelly carriages.

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    EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 12

    ‘…we had to move to a different part of


    Cracow, where the soldiers built a big wall
    and my mother and father and my brother
    and I all had to live in one room…
    ‘The was one small window in it but I
    didn’t like to look out of it because then I
    would see the wall and I hated the wall
    because our real home was on the other side
    of it. And this part of town was the bad part
    because it was always noisy and it was
    impossible to sleep…
    ‘Then one day the soldiers all came with
    huge trucks… And everyone was told to
    leave the houses. Lots of people didn’t want
    to and they hid wherever they could find a
    place but in the end I think they caught
    everyone. And the trucks took us to a train
    and the train… The train was horrible…
    There were too many of us in the carriages
    for one thing. And there was no air to
    breathe. And it smelled awful.’
    (Pages 128 and 129)

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    ANNOTATED EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 12

    ‘…we had to move to a different part of


    Cracow, where the soldiers built a big wall
    Repetition of
    ‘and’ creates
    sense of and my mother and father and my brother
    overcrowding
    and I all had to live in one room…
    ‘The was one small window in it but I
    Symbol of
    didn’t like to look out of it because then I
    separation
    from other
    people
    would see the wall and I hated the wall
    Strong word for

    because our real home was on the other Shmuel – emphasizes


    strength of feeling

    Each detail
    side of it. And this part of town was the
    reveals
    unpleasantness bad part because it was always noisy and
    of ghetto

    it was impossible to sleep…


    ‘Then one day the soldiers all came No one was spared

    with huge trucks… And everyone was told


    to leave the houses. Lots of people didn’t
    want to and they hid wherever they could Sense of chaos
    and panic

    No one was
    find a place but in the end I think they
    spared
    caught everyone. And the trucks took us to Sense of
    coercion

    a train and the train… The train was


    Adjectives
    horrible… There were too many of us in
    used for train
    journey reveal
    cruel
    the carriages for one thing. And there was
    treatment
    no air to breathe. And it smelled awful.’
    (Pages 128 and 129)
    POINT, EVIDENCE, EXPLANATION

    Question:
    Why do you think the writer includes details of the forced removal
    of the Jewish citizens of Cracow?

    Point:
    I think that John Boyne includes these details to shock the reader
    into feeling sorry for the Jewish citizens.

    Evidence:
    He does this when he writes: ‘Lots of people didn’t want to [be
    caught] and they hid wherever they could find a place but in the
    end I think they caught everyone.’

    Explanation:
    This suggests to the reader that people were running around,
    panicking and hiding because they didn’t want to be caught by the
    soldiers. However, the word ‘everyone’ shows how hopeless it
    was to run.

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